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The seamstress’s apprentices
One of Prima Crisafalo’s costumes from NEYT’s 2015 presentation of “The Tempest.”
Arts

The seamstress’s apprentices

Grant allows NEYT to train a new generation of costume designers, with a little help from an up-and-coming Brattleboro-based corsetière
By
Richard Henke
Wednesday, May 25, 2016 — Issue 358

BRATTLEBORO — This story will be reposted soon with corrections.

Arts

Bridging the creative and the scientific

By
Annie Landenberger

PUTNEY-Emma Paris is a creative force. The 19-year-old from Putney has been named Youth Poet...

Excerpt from Emma Paris's 'The First Wolf Back in Yellowstone'

By
Emma Paris

They threw her in Yellowstone to save it– to control the deer, work unpaid, change...

Finding one’s calling

By
Nancy A. Olson

WEST CHESTERFIELD, N.H.-In Donald Margulies's Collected Stories - the latest production of Actors Theatre Playhouse...

Natalia Bernal, Jason Ennis to perform at Marlboro’s Thrush Hill Stage

MARLBORO-Chilean vocalist Natalia Bernal and guitarist Jason Ennis present a selection of music from the...

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News

A one-man fight against red tape

By
Joyce Marcel
Tuesday, April 8, 2025 — Issue 810

BRATTLEBORO-What happens when you work in social services for 30 years, then retire and start your own social services agency, only to be met by the Trump Administration's attempt to cut Social Security off at the knees? Just ask Brattleboro's Leo Schiff. Schiff, 64, a licensed clinical social worker and drug and alcohol counselor, holds a master's degree in social work from the University of Vermont. He worked for the former Morningside Shelter (which became part of Groundworks Collaborative) for...

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Voices

Leaning into culture shock

By
Fran Lynggaard Hansen
Wednesday, September 5, 2018 — Issue 475

For those of you who haven't had the experience of living and working abroad, I have a few thoughts. I've learned to ask a lot of questions of landlords when I rent a new place, as very often you don't see them for quite a while after you sign the paperwork. So here you are, moving into a new place. Think of all the questions you need to ask. Where does the trash go? What's the internet password? How do...

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Arts

Windham Orchestra spotlights the genius of Beethoven, Brahms

Wednesday, March 28, 2018 — Issue 452

The Windham Orchestra spotlights two musical geniuses in a special concert Sunday, April 8. Two profoundly different works - Piano Concerto No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 15, by Brahms and Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony (Symphony No. 6) - are on the program at the 3 p.m. concert at the Latchis Theatre. Brahms' work opens the concert, with Windham Orchestra Musical Director Hugh Keelan at the piano, and Jessie Pierpont as guest conductor. Keelan describes the Piano Concerto as a work...

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